1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Meghalaya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bangladesh, India
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not Available
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Not Available
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Kumno phi long?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
babha janmiet
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
babha noph-phai-sngi
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
khublei
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million0.84 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million0.84 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Khasi people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
Not Available
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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